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GADI ADELMAN: ISRAEL THE LONE STAR STATE ****

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.11274/pub_detail.asp What would have been the largest-scale war games in the two countries’ military cooperation history with thousands of U.S. and Israeli Army servicemen, dozens of ships and deck-based aircraft, was called off on January 15th. The ‘Austere Challenge 2012’ was more than just war games. Aside from its size and importance it came at […]

FROM STEVEN PLAUT: EVEN AL-HA-ARETZ NOTICES THE TENURED LEFT IN ISRAEL’S UNIVERSITIES ****

Well you know the radical anti-democratic Left in Israel is upset
when even Haaretz runs a major news story about Isracampus and the
watchdog groups that are monitoring and exposing Israel’s tenured
traitors.

Haaretz today ran the following news story, complete with all the
usual spins, half-truths and outright lies you would expect from
Haaretz. Distortions and all, the real message gets through. Haaretz
and the Left are hysterical! The tenured Left is being exposed! The
Israeli and overseas Jewish public are learning the truth! Can
anything be more frightening than that for the Radical anti-Israel
Left?

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http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/10-percent-of-israeli-academics-labeled-anti-zionist-by-campus-watchdogs-1.408535

10 percent of Israeli academics labeled ‘anti-Zionist’ by campus watchdogs
Survey comes up with the names of more than 1,000 Israelis, 800 of
whom are academics but also including authors, journalists, public
intellectuals, and past and present cabinet ministers.

YORAM ETTINGER: THE 2012 INTRA-MUSLIM PREDICAMENT

The 2012 Intra-Muslim Predicament
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought”
“Israel Hayom” newsletter, January 20, 2012
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=1230

At the outset of 2012, irrespective of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Palestinian issue, the defining geopolitical and religious schism in the Middle East is boiling, exacerbating violent intra-Muslim fragmentation, religious, tribal, ideological and geographical.

The Syrian death toll is approaching 7,000, trending toward Papa Assad’s 1982 massacre of 20,000 Sunni rebels. The Turkish-Kurdish confrontation has shifted to a higher gear, exceeding 40,000 casualties since 1984. During the first week of January, a series of sectarian-driven bombings devastated Baghdad and Nasiriyah in Iraq, murdering more than 140 persons. More were killed in the Sunni stronghold of Mosul. Car bombs, suicide bombing and improvised explosive devices have become daily routine in Iraq, whose Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is a Shia Arab, President Jalal Talabani is a Sunni Kurd and Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi is a Sunni Arab. Iraq has become an explosive platform for its vindictive Shia Arab majority (60%), which was dominated and oppressed by the Sunni Arab minority (20%) since the seventeenth century. The historic conflict between Iraq’s Arabs and Iraq’s 15% Kurdish minority – which claims independence in northern Iraq, where it also confronts the Turkish military – further complicates matters.

SRI-LANKA OUSTS 161 MOSLEM PREACHERS….FOR FLOUTING VISAS (???)SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16675086
JUST FOR THE RECORD…CEYLON CHANGED ITS NAME TO THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA IN 1972 TO RETURN TO ITS ANCIENT NAME….ITS CAPITAL IS SRI JAYAWARDENAPURA-KOTTE BUT ITS COMMERCIAL CAPITAL REMAINS COLOMBO….JUST THOUGHT YOU’D LIKE TO KNOW….RSK
Sri Lanka has reportedly ordered 161 foreign Muslim preachers to leave the country for flouting visa regulations.

A senior immigration official was quoted as saying that the clerics had no right to preach in mosques because they had arrived on tourist visas.

He also said that some local Muslims had complained that the visitors were not teaching a moderate form of Islam.

The preachers – from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, the Maldives and Arab nations – must now leave by 31 January.

CLUELESS! OBAMA ADMINISTRATION THINKS THE TALIBAN WILL RENOUNCE TERRORISM….SEE THE PICTURE

http://weaselzippers.us/ Too Funny: Naive Obama Administration Thinks The Taliban Will Renounce Terrorism… Clueless doesn’t even begin to describe these people. Weasel KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban must renounce ties to terrorists and endorse peace efforts as a condition for opening a political office in the Gulf state of Qatar, a senior U.S. diplomat said […]

JOHN BERNARD:UNREASONABLE RISK AND ILL CONCEIVED COMBAT MISSIONS!

Unreasonable Risk and Ill-Conceived Combat Missions! http://letthemfight.blogspot.com/2012/01/unreasonable-risk-and-ill-conceived.html During an exchange with a Senatorial Aide, I received from him the link to a piece written by a Colonel Tony Pfaff, USA. The piece is entitled, ‘RISK, MILITARY ETHICS AND IRREGULAR WARFARE’. In this piece the Colonel details the problems encountered in asymmetrical combat, the unwieldy and […]

ISRAEL REFUSES TO GIVE U.S. EARLY WARNING OF STRIKE ON IRAN

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/Middle_East/article860670.ece Israel refuses to give US early notice of strike on Iran Uzi Mahnaimi, Israel has warned America’s top general that it will give Washington just 12 hours’ notice if it decides to launch a strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities.The refusal to give more advance warning, which would prevent the US blocking the raid, is […]

SOEREN KERN: BRITAIN’S RISING TIDE OF ISLAM….SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2776/britain-islam-rising
READ PATRICK DUNLEAVY’S BOOK TO BE SHOCKED BY THE NUMBER OF MOSLEMS IN AMERICAN JAILS AND THE RADICAL PRIOSN IMAM’S WHO CONVERT THEM AND MANIPULATE THEM…
The Fertile Soil of Jihad: Terrorism’s Prison Connection by Patrick T. Dunleavy (Hardcover – Sep 30, 2011)

The number of young Muslims in British prisons has skyrocketed over the past two decades and, according to a Muslim advisor to the United Kingdom’s Prison Service, Islamic preachers are to blame.

There are now almost 11,000 Muslim males, mostly in their teens or twenties, in British prisons. This figure is almost six times what it was 20 years ago and represents 12.6% of the total prison population in England and Wales — a huge over-representation considering that Muslims comprise around 5% of the British population. By comparison, in 1991 there were 1,957 Muslim inmates in British prisons.

In a January 13 interview with the London-based newspaper, The Times (registration required), Ahtsham Ali, the

GINGRICH WINS AND THE SMEAR BEGINS: DANIEL GREENFIELD….SEE NOTE PLEASE

Gingrich and Arafat – Anatomy of a Smear http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/

THE DIRTIEST HANDSHAKE IN JEWISH HISTORY IS THAT OF THE LATE PRIME MINISTER RABIN AND ARAFAT….RABIN LEGITIMATED THE VERMIN AND ISRAEL HAS PAID A TERRIBLE PRICE FOR HIS APPEASEMENT…..RSK

Two photos are being circulated of Gingrich shaking hands with Arafat, one from 1993 and one from 1998, with the context stripped away, to imply that Newt was formerly friendly with Arafat and then “changed” his position.
The 1998 photo is the easiest to address because it is the most amply documented. That photo was taken during Gingrich’s trip to Israel and I will let the news stories from the time speak for themselves.

After days of angering Palestinians by publicly siding with Israel, House Speaker Newt Gingrich was upbeat about his talks yesterday with Yasser Arafat and insisted he was just trying to help move the peace process forward.

Later, the Georgia Republican alluded to his outspoken speech Tuesday to Israel’s parliament, when, veering from U.S. policy, he declared Jerusalem “the united and eternal capital of Israel.” Yesterday, Gingrich said it was his guess that Arafat himself knew Jerusalem would always be the capital of Israel.

MEASURING THE MYTH: MAX BOOT’S REVIEW OF PAULA BROADWELL’S “ALL IN ALL: THE EDUCATION OF GENERAL DAVID PETRAEUS”…..SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204409004577156853773047844.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion
Measuring the Man in Charge A general’s life story and an inside look at his year in command in Afghanistan

THIS PARAGRAPH SAYS IT ALL AND DEMONSTRATES THE SMALL AND NARROW MIND OF THE MAN WHOSE APPALLING COIN STRATEGY AND RULES OF ENGAGEMENT AND “NATION BUILDING” COST AMERICAN LIVES. THIS SO CALLED BIG IDEA IS DRIVEL NOT EVEN WORTHY OF A LOWER LEVEL OFFICE BUREAUCRAT…..RSK

“Ms. Broadwell and Mr. Loeb begin by laying out the “four tasks” that Gen. Petraeus urges “strategic leaders” to perform. First, get “the big ideas right”; second, communicate those “big ideas”; third, oversee “the implementation of those big ideas”; and finally capture “best practices and lessons” and cycle them “back through the system to help refine the big ideas.” The authors then show how Gen. Petraeus applied this approach to such basic tasks as crafting rules on the use of force designed to strike a balance between being aggressive without causing unnecessary civilian casualties.”Paula Broadwell, a 1995 West Point graduate and former Army officer, went to work in 2008 on a doctoral dissertation at King’s College London on Gen. David Petraeus and his role in U.S. military innovation in the post-9/11 era. When the general, after striking success with the troop “surge” in Iraq, was appointed as the senior U.S. commander in Afghanistan in July 2010, Ms. Broadwell decided to try to spin off a book from her research. She found a high-powered agent, she says in “All In: The Education of General David Petraeus,” who persuaded her to “go big” with a book of considerably wider scope and greater sales prospects than her dissertation. Vernon Loeb, an editor at the Washington Post, was recruited as her co-author.

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